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Hi, I'm Rob.
And I'm Catherine.
Welcome to Six Minute Vocabulary.
Our subject for today is onomatopoeia.
That means words that sound like the thing they mean.
And Catherine and I will be trying to demonstrate some of these words today.
Yes, like the sound that most people's phones make when they get text messages.
We call that sound a beep.
Beep.
That's it, Rob.
Yeah.
That's onomatopoeia.
The word sounds like the thing it means.
Beep.